Oneohtrix Point Never‘s new album, Garden Of Delete, is finally out today. Last week, Daniel Lopatin, the project’s mastermind, unveiled a short film for ‘Sticky Drama’. To tease the album further, he has let loose another single off it called ‘Ezra’. Take a listen below.
Thanks to the incredible Tanya Tagaq, we discovered her cousin Celina Kalluk, also a tremendous Inuit throat singer. Watch this fittingly stunning video for ‘Daylight Remains’, a traditional Inuit song that combines Inuktitut and throat singing. The video was filmed on the shores of Resolute Bay in the Canadian Arctic.
We’re very glad to hear about the good news surrounding Bibio lately. First, and as we had already mentioned, two of his marvellous albums, 2005’s Fi and 2009’s Ambivalence Avenue, are being reissued on Warp on November 27th.
Now, Bibio is teasing a new album due out in Spring 2016. It seems like a long wait till then but we can already wrap our ears around a beautiful brand new song called ‘Petals’.
We had already mentioned that Montreal based trio BIG|BRAVE are embarking on a European tour in support of their majestic, fierce and poignant second full-length album, Au De La, released earlier this Autumn. The tour, which kicks off next week, will take them across cities in Europe and the UK and will include a London show on November 25th at Birthdays. Check their full run of dates here.
Today they are sharing a video to accompany the album’s monumental track ‘Look At How The World Has Made A Change’. Watch it below and don’t miss the chance to see them in action.
Au De La is out now via Southern Lord.
There’s a release on Erased Tapes later this month that we’re really looking forward to – that of Ukranian composer and pianist extraordinaire Lubomyr Melnyk and his new full-length album Rivers and Streams. Known as one of the world’s fastest pianist, Melnyk employs a piano technique called ‘Continuous Music’, which he developed in the 1970s. Also referred to as the “kung fu” technique, it allows him to create an uninterrupted wave of notes that can reach 19 notes on each hand per second. In Rivers and Streams, Melnyk laces the flow of water with the flow of music. Here’s what said about it:
“In the body of the Continuous Piano Master, the fingers and the hands turn into Water, Air and Stone. These are the three manifestations of the Continuous Technique. And for the Continuous Pianist, the fingers physically transform the music into one of these three elements.
The greatest of all miracles in the universe is Water. It is also, I believe, the rarest of all physical things in the universe. Water is the most magical and the most mysterious of all things we know! And so I dedicate this album to the Rivers and Streams of this world – in gratitude for their Beauty!”
An excerpt of the magnificent opening track ‘Parasol’ is now available to stream. Listen to it below and grab Rivers and Streams when it drops on November 27th.
Fay Hield has announced the release of Old Adam, her third solo album of traditional music. The effort, due on February 12th via Soundpost Records, features 14 tracks, from the ‘The Hag in the Beck’ from the 1600s to a version of the Tom Waits’ song ‘The Briar and the Rose’. The press release describes Old Adam as “a fresh and original exploration of how we use stories and music to understand what it means to be human”.
The traditional singer and folklorist has shared ‘Green Gravel’, from Alice Gomme’s ‘Traditional Games of England, Scotland and Ireland’, as the first wonderful taste from the album. It comes with a video and you can watch it below.
